Elbert Hubbard Quotes

He that dies in extreme old age will be reduced to the same state with him that is cut down untimely.

What will I be doing in twenty years' time? I'll be dead, darling! Are you crazy?

'Aging' has been bad ever since we figured out it led to dying.

I used to not want to die in any way but in my sleep when I was a young man. I'd like to die awake now, if possible, with people around me who love me.

Retiring is just practicing up to be dead. That doesn't take any practice.

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.

You feel a sense of urgency, especially at my advanced age, when you're staring into the grave.

I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.

By the time you've reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

These trees and these old people have one thing in common, they're both going in the ground soon!

I tend not to think about living to some grand old age. Then again, I don't think about dying, either.

Dying people often become childish.

To retire is to begin to die.

I think God just died of old age. And, when I realized that he wasn't any more, it didn't shock me. It seemed natural and right!

I don't want to die an old lady.

Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Why, I am about doing very well, for I am preparing myself, sir, for a place where hardly any majors, and very few Lieutenant-Generals go. God save us, why should there be such a bustle about the taking off of an old grey head that cannot get up three steps without two men to support it?

Of course, it's no fun getting old and getting sick and dying; we all know that's coming, and it's a bore.

My next book's title is going to be, 'I Have One Foot in the Grave and Another on a Banana Peel.'

No one should die when they're 50.

All of us have the same thing coming - death. It's waiting. But I don't want to go. I want to live to be 102!

Though I'm 75, I'm not looking forward to death, but it's there for all of us.

I think of dying every day... At a certain age, you should be prepared to go at any time.

I'm not getting old, I'm getting dead.

It seems like people are just dropping off the Earth. I suppose that happens when you get older. It's part of life. No one's getting out of it.